Magnetic structure of the new chiral magnetoelectric Sb2MnO6

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Magnetoelectric multiferroics have been recently the focus of a significant research effort. The experiment that we propose explores a new class of "magnetochiral" systems, along the lines of our recent succesful experimental work on Fe-langasite. MnSb2O6 is an example of a material developing a non-collinear incommensurate magnetic order on a chiral crystallographic structure; the combination of the two may give rise to strong coupling between the structural and the magnetic chirality, as is the case in Fe-langasite, opening the possibility of significant magneto-electric effects in a spontaneous mono-domain magnetic system. We propose to investigate the peculiar features of this compound by analysing its complex magnetic structure, which hitherto has not been unambiguously determined, via magnetic neutron diffraction measurements on powder samples.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.24088359
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/24088359
Provenance
Creator Dr Laurent Chapon; Professor Paolo Radaelli; Dr Federica Fabrizi; Ms Natasha Perks
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2014
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2011-12-02T11:07:08Z
Temporal Coverage End 2011-12-03T13:51:09Z